I believe that this film was originally telecast on PBS back in 1996. It starts out with a lot of detail about the MITS computer, the Altair which was the first “personal computer.” It was the one that caused Bill Gates and Paul Allen to drop out of college and provide BASIC for the Altair.
This video, hosted by Robert Cringley reminds us of what happened in the early years of the personal computer. It also spends a lot of time talking about the first user group called “The Homebrew Computer Club” and even the “West Coast Computer Faire.”
Then it moves on to the development of VisiCalc that first made the personal computer useful. Of course, the founders of VisiCalc also were the first members of the Boston Computer Society.
See it divided into 3 parts at DailyMotion.com:
Part 1:
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